Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34895, Joseph Gale, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
Passport
Gale Joseph
S 34895
R. —
Hannah
CONTENTS
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to G. W. Tuckey and to the Mts. 17 Aug. 1870. W. Tucker Sept. 13. 1830.
See these letters in my correspondence book
New Jersey
Joseph Gale
Burlington in the State of N. Jersey was a private in the company commanded by Captain Bentleous of the Regiment comman- ded by Colonel Pulaski in the N Jersey line, for the term of ten months from November 1779 to 1780
the Roll of New Jersey rate of Eight Dollars per month, commence on the 28 th day of March 1827
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th of April 1829 and sent to Dr Blake Land Office - Washington City.
Arrears to 4th of September 1829 $42.00 Semi-annual allowance ending
$42.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
Rec. book 43 fol: 563

County of Burlington ss
On the ninth day of August 1828 personally appeared before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Joseph Gale resident near Fucherton in said County aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that he the said Joseph Gale enlisted for the term of five Months in the Spring of 1778 in Capt Benjamin Tennincres Company of Col Phillip Van Cortlandt Regiments of the Continental Line and was at the Battle of Long Island and White Plains, that he served six months and was discharged in the State of New Jersey, and received a discharge hereto annexed - And this deponent further states that in November 1779 he enlisted in Capt Bentelows Company in Colonel Pulaski's Legion at Little Egg Harbor New Jersey, for one year and received a discharge from Capt Bentelow after a ten months service which discharge has been destroyed by

Cottingham Tavern in the State of North Carolina - and this deponent further states that he rendered some service in the militia and was at the Battle of Red Bank at the fort under Capt. Lick and he further states he served during a part of the war on board different continental Privateers and was of the crew of the Schooner Rattlesnake John Field Commander and fought a hard Battle with a British Privateer from New York - That during the whole war he was a faithful advocate for the Independence of the Country and suffered much in the cause - And that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a Pension - that he has been and still is in very indigent circumstances advanced in age and infirm from disease with a large family to support, illiterate and ignorant of my rights situated forty five miles from the County Town but few Friends and witnesses scattered in various parts of the Country some some of their residences unknown until recently to this deponent
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present - that his name is not on the roll of any state to his knowledge - and in pursuance of the act of January of 1 st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 28 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that

time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or parts thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 - and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me - nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule here to annexed and by me subscribed - That since the 18 th March 1818 no changes have been made in my property - And I further swear that I am unable to attend open ap- pear in Court by reason of a rheumatic dis- ease and a private affection of my parts and general bodily infirmity and disability Sworn to and declared his on the 9 th day of August Joseph + Gale A.D. 1818 mark
Geo W Tucker
I George W Tucker a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas holden in the County where the declarant resides do hereby certify that the above named Joseph Gale is from a disease called a hydrocele with which I am credibly informed and believe he has been afflicted for the space of five months unable

to attend the County of which I am Judge and I do not think from present appear- ances that he will be able to attend the County above named at its next session I have therefore in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the 1 st March 1823 attended at his place of abode and administered the foregoing oath Geo. W. Tucker
Schedule of the property of Jos. Gabe
I have no property except one horse and Waggon, one ten plate stove and the clothing necessary to cover my na- kedness
Witness Geo W Tucker
his Joseph + Gale mark
I Samuel J Read Clerk of the County of Com- mon Pleas of the County of Washington certify that George W Tucker before whom the above affidavit of Joseph Gale who is now sick and confined to his house was made is Judge as afore- said. I also certify that the said schedule and oath have been admitted to the record of said County and that the same are truly copied therefrom and I do further certify that in the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is fourteen Dol- lars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto sets my hand and and affixed the seal of the said Court on this fourth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
S. J. Read
Mem: to Com: 28. 4
March 1829
Dr. Blake

State of New Jersey County of Burlington ss
On this Ninth day of Septem 1828 Personally appeared before me one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in & for said county, James Gale of Washington Township in said county aged Seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth depose and say: That Joseph Gale an Applicant for a Pension Enlisted under Capt. Benjamin Fremimore in the Spring of 1776 said Fremimore company belonged to Colonel Philip Van Cortlandts Regiment of the Continental line, and believes that he was at the Battle of Long Island and White Plains. That he believes he served Six or Seven Months under the Enlistment and saw his discharge after his return.
And this deponent further States that Joseph Gale Enlisted at the same time, viz November 1779 at Little Egg Harbour with Isaac Andrews and one Riggins in Capt. Bentilows company, Count Pulaskis Legion.
That he was absent from home near a year and this deponent believes he was in the Continental Service during that period of time, and has seen his

discharge after his return, and has since seen the remnants of it eaten by mice or other vermin.
He also deposes that said Joseph Gale served in the Militia a tour of duty under Capt. Leek, and has also served on board various Continental Privateers.
James Gale Mark
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day of year aforesaid
Geo. W. Tucker
State of New Jersey
Burlington County ss. I James J. Read clerk of the Superior Court of Common Pleas of the county of Burlington aforesaid Do hereby certify and make known that George W. Tucker Esq. before whom the affidavit of James Gale is taken was at the time of taking the same and now is one of the judges of the said Superior Court duly commissioned and sworn and that the signature Geo. W. Tucker to the attestation of the said affidavit is the sig- nature and proper hand writing of the said George W. Tucker and that full faith & credit is due and ought to be given to his official acts as judge of the said court
James J. Read Clerk

State of New Jersey County of Burlington ss.
On this 12th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me Oliver W. Emery a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in said Court Hannah Gale a Resident of Tuckerton in the County and State aforesaid aged Seventy four years who being duly sworn  affirmed according to law, did on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress approved July 29th 1848. That she is the widow of Joseph Gale who was a Revolutionary Officer and was a Pensioner of the United States that he was inscribed on the roll of Pensions on the 28th of March 1829 at 8 dollars per month and that his Certificate was issued on the 27th of April 1829 that her said husband drew his pension for about two years through his agent George W. Foster that the said George W. Foster became dissatisfied because he could not have the disposal of the Pension money and still through malicious designs and unfriendly feelings in the year 1830 he made unjust and false Statements to the Department falsely alleging that Joseph Gale was or had been a fugitive and sory and discrediting the witnesses who made affidavit in favor of his last term of service by which means the said Joseph Gale's pension was stopped. She further declares that the statements made to the Department by George W. Foster have the purpose of depriving her of his pension were false and unjust and that it was well known in the neighbor- hood.

hand he did it solely through Malvolent designs which will be made more fully to appear by the testimony of credible witnesses hereunto annexed. She also states that she has seen Joseph Gole's discharge for his last term of service which was for ten months commencing in the year 1879; that the discharge is lost; She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Gole at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and that on or about the 25th day of August A.D. 1898, before Gibson & Sherift & Davis, and that her name before her marriage was Hannah Pratt. And that her said husband died at Poughkeepsie in the year 1894 and that she is still a widow. That she has no marriage certificate or record and after due search believes that none exists.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the assassins , Pension illegally withheld from her husband as well as for her own pension agreeable to the act of Congress approved July 27th 1848.
Hannah Pratt Gole
Subscribed and sworn to before me the 12th day of May 1857 Oliver M. P. Burlingame
I hereby certify that the above named Hannah Gole is aged and infirm and by reason of said infirmity she is unable to attend the court and that the word assassins was erased and pension interlined before the signing and execution thereof. Oliver M. P. Burlingame

State of New Jersey County of Burlington
On this 12th day of May, 1881, personally appeared me Cornelius Gale, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Burlington County, Cornersville, a resident of Burlington County and State, and who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, that he has been well acquainted with Hannah Gale, subscribed to the foregoing declaration, for many years, that he was acquainted with her previous to her marriage to Joseph Gale, and that he was present and was a witness at the marriage ceremony by Jason Sherast Esq. between the said Hannah Galt and Joseph Gale at the time and place mentioned in the foregoing declaration, and that the said Joseph Gale died in the year 1874, and that Hannah Gale is still his widow.
Cornelius his Gale Oaths
Affidavit subscribed on the 12th day of 1881 Oliver M.P. Emery
I hereby certify that the above named Cornelius Gale is a credible witness, and the word sworn was erased and affidavit substituted before signing and the execution thereof.
Oliver M.P. Emery

November 10, 1932
Mr. C. Sterling Otis Tuckerton New Jersey
BA-J/CS Joseph Gale S. 24895
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of November 3, 1932, requesting the Revolutionary War record of Joseph Gale who enlisted from Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 24895, based upon the military service of Joseph Gale.
He applied for pension August 9, 1828, while living in Tuckerton, Burlington County, New Jersey, aged seventy-six years.
It was alleged that he enlisted in the spring of 1776 and served six months as private in Captain Benjamin Fenimore's Company of Burlington County Militia under Colonel Philip Van Cortland and was in the battles of Long Island and White Plains; that he served a tour in the New Jersey Militia under Captain Leake and was in the battle of Red Bank; that he enlisted at Little Egg Harbor in July, August or November, 1779, and served ten months in Captain Wentalou's Company in Count Pulaski's Legion; that he also served on board different continental privateers and was a member of the crew of the schooner, "Rattlesnake," Captain John Field (probably meant for Mansfield instead of Field) when it was in battle with a British privateer from New York.
Joseph Gale's claim for pension was allowed but his name was subsequently dropped from the pension roll upon the receipt of testimony discrediting the evidence furnished by the soldier in support of his claim.
It was stated that Joseph Gale died in 1834 at Pemberton, New Jersey.
He had no mention of service under Count Pulaski

In 1851 Hannah Gale, a resident of Tuckerton, New Jersey, aged seventy-four years, stated that she was the widow of Joseph Gale, that she married him about August 25, 1798, and that her name before marriage was Hannah Mott.
In 1829 the soldier stated that he had a "large family to support" but he did not give any names. In 1828 one James Gale was living in Washington Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, aged seventy-eight years, and in 1820 one Henry Mott was living in Egg Harbor Township, aged eighty-two years, but it was not stated that they were related to the soldier. In 1851 one Cornelius Gale was living in Tuckerton and one William Gale stated in 1851 that he was present at the marriage of Joseph and Hannah Gale, relationships not given.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

This is to certify that David Gale in all respects than Corralled, a foot has truly served before the time of enlistment until the first December during the time he was Discharge witness my hand
David Stevenson Lewis
Gale Joseph N.J. S 34875

OTIS CRANBERRY CO. LITTLEWORTH CRANBERRY CO. MANAGER. NUGENTOWN BOG
G. STERLING OTIS GROWER OF CRANBERRIES
TUCKERTON, N. J.,
Nov. 3, 1932
Mr. A. D. Hiller, Assistant to Administrator, Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Replying to your letter of the 2nd Inst. submit the following information together with enclosure.
I am of the belief that the first JOSEPH GALE the one with margin scored red is my ancestor. At the time of the Revolution Tuckerton was known as Little Egg Harbour. Said Joseph Gale enlisted from Little Egg Harbor with Pulaski's Legion and returned to this locality after the war.
Enclosure presents Joseph Gale, his two marriages, and children so far as I have been able to find them. I am descended from him by the daughter Elizabeth , 1st marriage.
I desire to prove definitely that he was my ancestor. If your records can show his connection with any of the parties listed on the enclosure it will prove my deductions.
I am
Gratefully yours,
G. Sterling Otis

JOSEPH GALE - born about year 1754, died about year 1840.
Married 1st Mercy (Massey) Allen , March 16, 1783, daughter of Edward Allen of Bass River, N.J.
Children.
Cornelius - born about 1783, died August 23, 1857, 74 years of age
Elizabeth - 1786, died between 1824 and 1833.
Samuel 1790, died Aug. 27, 1861, 71 years of age
James 1799, died July 7, 1872, 73 years of age
Married 2nd Hannah Mott , daughter of Henry and Sarah Mott of Little Egg Harbour, about the year 1800.
Children.
Henry - born 1804
Joseph - born 1802, died Feb. 28, 1880
Abel - died 1876
David - 1891
Hannah -
Amy - born 1818, died January 6, 1873
Hannah Gale the second wife of Joseph Gale died November 1, 1862

Co. CRANBERRY Co. BENTON BOG
G. STERLING OTIS GROWER OF CRANBERRIES
TUCKERTON, N. J.,
JOSEPH GALE - served as private, Captain Benjamin Fenimore's Company, Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt's Regiment, State troops; enlisted June 1776; discharged December 1, 1776; was at the battles of Long Island, New York, August 27, 1776, and White Plains, New York, October 28, 1776; Private, 2nd. Regiment, Burlington County Militia, under Captains Fenimore and Leak; served Monthly Tours in 1777; was at the battle of Red Bank; Private, Captain Bentelow's Company, Count Pulaski's Legion, Continental Army; enlisted at Little Egg Harbor, November 1779, for one year, served ten months; discharged at Charlotte Tavern, North Carolina; seaman on Schooner "Rattlesnake" under the command of Captain John Field; received certificate No. 165, dated May 1, 1784, signed by James Fenimore for 10:16;8, for the depreciation of his continental pay in the Burlington County Militia - during the Revolutionary War. (Age, 24 years.)
JOSEPH GALE - served as Private, Captain John Ross' Company, 3rd. Regiment, New Jersey Continental line; enlisted March 10, 1777; Musician, January 1, 1778; Private, May 1779; transferred to Captain Dayton's Company, 1st Regiment, New Jersey Continental Line; on the rolls January 1781; transferred to Captain Jonathan Dayton's Company, Mathias Ogden's Regiment, New Jersey Continental Line; mustered May 20, 1783, by Colonel W. Stewart, Inspector of the Northern Army; discharged in Spring, 1783; was at the battles of Short Hills, June 26, 1777; Brandywine, September 11, 1777; Germantown, October 4, 1777; Springfield, June 13, 1780; and the surrender of Cornwallis, October 19, 1781; age, 19 years; resident of Burlington County, New Jersey, 1791.

34 895 Rev INVALID.
A32 Nov. 10 list to G. Sterling Otis M.C.S.
File No. 34 895
Joseph Gale His Her
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 150
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mr. A. Shinn

State of New Jersey
Burlington County ss.
Be it remembered that on this our thirteenth little day of the guest in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred & thirty two personally appeared before me William Rosree Judge of the District Court of the United States in and for the District of New Jersey, Joseph Taylor of the township of Northampton in the County of Burlington as one and who being duly sworn according to law upon his said oath, doth depose and say that he is now in the eighty fourth year of his age, that he served as a private during the war of the Revolution and the greater part of the time under the direction of Cavalry under the command of Col Henry Lee of Virginia - and this deponent doth perfectly well recollect that at the time he joined the said corps that Joseph Gally was then a private in the same corps and continued to serve therein for some considerable time, and afterwards the said Joseph Gally was discharged with several others at Charlottesville Court House in the State of Virginia - that during the whole time the said Joseph Gally belonging to the said corps he done his duty faithfully as this deponent well believes - and he never heard at any time that the said Joseph Gally was a deserter or a refugee - and this deponent is confident that if any allegation of that kind had been made against the said Joseph Gally that this deponent would have heard of it - I further say the rest
Sworn & Subscribed before me the date above before me W. Rosree  his Joseph Taylor Mark

I William Russell, Judge of the District Court of the United States of America in and for the District of New Jersey do hereby certify that I have been acquainted for some years with Joseph Taylor in the within written deposition named, and which was sworn to before me by the said Joseph Taylor, and believe the facts set forth by him in the said deposition, respecting the testimony services of Joseph Taylor to be truly stated - Witness my hand the 27 th day of November A.D. 1833. -
W Russell

Tuckerton N.J. August 14 th 1830.
Sir. The publicity of the fact of a Pension having been granted to Joseph Gale has brought out reports of his conduct during the Revolutionary War said to be facts, and also of the doubtful Credibility of his witnesses; I feel it my duty as I was somewhat accessory in procuring the Pension, to state, that I have heard (so far as reports speak and as I now believe) most egregiously imposed upon by this man and his witnesses, and hasten to repair any injury that the government may sustain by implication or otherwise, in future by continuing his Pension, and suggest the propriety of suspending the same, until evidence is produced to sustain the following charges among others. ~ ~
1 st That Joseph Gale did not serve nine mo. in the Continental service. ~ That he was during the Revolutionary War aiding & assisting the Common Enemy, by acts of violence in

supplying them with promotions in New York & elsewhere, that he was a Tory during a part of the Rev. War; that his pretended discharge is of a suspicious description. ~
2 nd Isaac Andrews a Witness not to be believed under Oath
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3 rd James Gale, a Witness not to be believed under Oath, his Testimony having been publickly discredited in the Court of Com- mon Pleas for Burlington County by Testimo- ny there produced. ~ ~
As unmeritorious as this Pensioner is said to be, it is gratifying to add that the disease producing his personal Disability has in a great measure subsided. ~
The Certificate having been left in my possession I return it to your Office for your further direction thereon. ~
I am Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant Geo. W. Bucker
Hon. J. H. Eaton Secy. of War.

State of New Jersey County of Atlantic By me On this 30 th day of September A.D. 1857 personally appeared before me Josiah M. Browne a Notary Public for the State of New Jersey. I know him to be the person a resident of Pleasant Mills in the County and State aforesaid who being duly affirmed according to law deposes and saith I am about 92 years of age and am a Soldier of the Revolution and am a Pensioner of the United States I have been in receipt of a Pension since the year 1832 I was acquainted with Joseph Gale of Egg Harbor Township Burlington County and State of New Jersey the identical Joseph Gale who was placed on the pension roll and afterward dropped therefrom whose widow Hannah Gale now lives at Tuckerton N.J. Joseph Gale did not serve in the Company and Regiment with me but I know that he was a Revolutionary Soldier and served his Country faithfully I cannot say how long he served but think he served between two and three years he was discharged at or near Amboy New Jersey I know other persons of the same name who were Tories and who fought against their Country but I know the said Joseph Gale was true to his Country and served in the war of the Revolution and was honorably discharged
Witness my hand and seal this 30 th day of September A.D. 1857 Josiah M. Browne
Affirmed to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that the said Joseph Johnson is a Credible Witness In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 30 th day of Sept 1857 Josiah M. Browne

State of New Jersey County of Atlantic B.C. On this 30th day of September A.D. 1857 personally appeared before me Josiah M. Browne a Notary Public for the State of New Jersey. I, Josiah M. Johnson a resident of Pleasant Mills in the County and State aforesaid who being due affirmed according to law, deposeth and saith that I am about 92 years of age and am a Soldier of the Revolution and am a Pensioner of the United States I have been in receipt of a Pension since the year 1832 I was acquainted with Joseph Gale of Egg Harbor Township Burlington County and State of New Jersey the identical Joseph Gale who was placed on the pension roll and afterward dropped therefrom whose widow Hannah Gale now lives at Tuckerton N.J. Joseph Gale did not serve in the Company and Regiment with me but I know that he was a Revolutionary Soldier and served his Country faithfully I cannot say how long he served but think he served between two and three years he was discharged at or near Amboy New Jersey I know other persons of the same name who were Tories and who fought against their Country but I know the said Joseph Gale was true to his Country and served in the war of the Revolution and was honorable discharged Witness my hand and seal this 30th day of September A.D. 1857 Josiah M. Browne his Joseph M. Johnson mark
Affirmed to and subscribed before me the day and year above written And I hereby certify that the said Joseph Johnson is a credible witness In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 30th day of Sept 1857 Josiah M. Browne

20. 868.
Hannah Gale
wid of Joseph dec d
N. I.
let H. C. Spalding Aug 21/57 " same Sept 24/57.
See large letter book for year 1857 for these letters

H. J. Mead May 2, 1832 ge
Recorded Vol 22 Page 308.

War Dept.
Pension Office.
May 2, 1832
Sir,
Your letter of the 26 th ult o has been re- ceived. The the affidavits containing information against  on the examination of Joseph Gale were made before G. W. Tucker, Esq. of Tuckerton, N.J. If you will write to him, and get him to join you in the request that copies of them may be furnished, we will immediately send copies to you. It is the wish of this Dept t to prevent dispute, and vexatious law-suits in such cases. Otherwise we should not hesitate to comply with your request. It seems to be proper in most cases that when charges are filed against any individual, he should at least know the nature of them, and be made acquainted with the names of the informants.
Cop.
Samuel J. Read, Esq. Mount Holly, N. Jersey
April 26

J. J. Kead Apr 16. 1832 JC
Recorded Vol 22 Page 296.

War Dept s
Pension Office
April 16. 1892
Sir,
In reply to your enquiry respecting the case of Joseph Gale, I have to inform you that his pension has been stopped, because from affidavits on file in this office it appears that he did not serve in the American army during the Revolutionary war; and it further appears that he was engaged with a band of Refugees in committing depredations on our peaceable citizens.
Co
W. Saml. J. Read, Mount Holly, New Jersey
11 April

Southampton W.G. October 9
June
Geo. W. Tucker Esq. P.M. Tuckerton New Jersey
Recd. Oct 13 th
Oct. 8 th 1820.
Geo. P. Vandeland

Corrland Town Oct. 8 th 1830
Geo. H. Tucker Esq m
Sir
I have rec d yours of the 18. Sep r respecting a certain Joseph Gale said to have been a Soldier in a company of which Benja n Fannimore was capt d and was discharged by a certain David Anderson after 5. or 6. months service on Long Island and White Plains in October or Nov r 1776. under my command. And you enquire if I have any recollection of them or of their being in the Army of the Revolutionary War. My answer is that I never knew or heard of any such men being under my com d or under the com d of any other Colonel in the Army; They nor either of them could have been under any com d in October 1776 on Long Island, as I was then a Lieut. Col l under the com d of Col l Wynkoop of the 4 th N. York Regt. at Skeensborough on Lake Champlain - however the 2 d N. York Regt. was at the Battle of the White Plains, commanded by the Lieut. Col l Frederick Weissenfels as the Col l Rudolphus Writson had absented himself without leave & then his excellency Gen l Washington having blank commissions had one filled up with my name to com d that Regiment and sent it by express to me at Skeensborough which I rec d in December and immediately proceeded to join the Regiment which I found in the state of Pennsylvania much reduced by desertion and unwarranted discharges made by Col l Writson, before his desertion as I was informed.
The Regiment after the capture of the Hessians at Trenton was ordered to proceed to Fishkill in the state of New York to be recruited, which order I complied with & continued the command thereof until the end of the war, having received previously on the 10 th of Oct r 1783 a Commission as a Brigadier General by brevet in the Army of the United States of America, in pursuance of an Act of Congress of the 30 th of Sep r 1783.~
Very Respectfully I Remain Y r Humble Serv t
Ph. V. Cortlandt

War Department Pension Office
Washington City
See letter to G. W. Tucker Oct. 16. 1830.

Tuckerton N.J. October
1830
Sir, The enclosed is testimony touching the claim of Joseph Gale to a pension for Revolutionary services, I am solely actuated in my conduct in bringing this matter to your notice by a sense of public duty, and if Gale has really rendered us services during that eventful struggle and can satisfy the Department of them, it will afford me pleasure to learn that he has again been permitted to draw his pension; I am however satisfied that I have been grossly imposed upon in relation to his services, and wish the agency I had in procuring for him a pension to be cancelled. The hints thrown out that Gale was using Joseph Story's discharges (whose relative he married) and the discrediting of James Gale's testimony in our Court in July term last by Genl Read & W m Hindle two respectable men (which occurred after my leaving the Court, and which only came to my knowledge in April or May last) brought me to make enquiries that resulted in my conviction of his want of a fair claim to a pension & induced me to give the department the notice

That I did in August last. ~
Although sick of this investigation and of the defamacy of these men, and of the perfect putridity of James Gale's character for veracity, I feel bound to give the Department any further aid in my power when called upon. ~
I am Very Respectfully Your Obedient Geo. W. Tucker
N. B. Some of the witnesses named in the Certificate of Credibility are absent at present. Others are a repetition of those sent. — I am further informed that Stephen Inman a respectable man of the adjoining County of Nonmarch. Complains that he recognized Joseph Gale with a Band of Refugees that succeeded in robbing his Father's House in the latter part of the Revolution. I have not taken his affidavit. ~ J. L. Edwards Esq. } Police Office War Dept. }

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Low New Jersey

Dr Sir
Yours of the 29. th ult. & 7. th instant have been duly recd but owing to my absence in Pennsylvania the certificate you wished was not forwarded until now — which is the first thing I have attended to since my return — & I hope it may reach you in time —
Yours resp SAMUEL READ
11. th October 1830.
Geo W Tucker Esq

I do Herby Certify That Mr Joseph Gale is afflicted with a Species of Hydrocele & I should say That it would be injurious to his Complaint to attend Court at this term Given. under my Hand this 9 th Augt 1828
Wm B Mason

War Department Pension Office Washington City
Washington City Dec. 20 th 1830

Tuckerton N.J. Octo 16 th 1830
Sir. Enclosed is the Original Letter of Genl. Philip Van Cortland addressed to me in answer to one from me. — I am told he was many years in Congress. —
You will oblige me by returning the Copy or original to me when convenient. —
In haste Very Respectfully Geo. H. Tucker
J. L. Edwards Esq. Pension Office. War Dept.

Capt. Charles Cramer

State of New Jersey } Burlington County ss }
On the Fifth of October A D 1830 before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid personally appeared Charles Cramer of the Township of Little Egg Harbour, County & State aforesaid who being duly Caution- ed and sworn deposeth & saith that he has been acquainted with James Gale of the Township of Washington for thirty — years, that his general Character, is that of a man unworthy of credit as a witness, that from this deponents personal knowledge of the man he considers him as unworthy of credit under oath, and have heard his testimony publickly dis- credited by witnesses in the Court of Com- mon Pleas for the County of Burlington for February term 1830. — Charles Cramer Sworn & Subscribed to before me this 5 th October 1830
Geo. W. Tucker Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey } (Burlington County ss }
On the Sixth of October A.D. 1830 before the subscri- ber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County as aforesaid personally appeared Jon- athan Giffard of the Township of Little Egg Harbour County & State afore- said who being duly cautioned & affirmed deposeth & saith that he has been acquainted with Joseph Gale of the Township of Little Egg Harbour for Twenty years that his general character is that of a man unworthy of credit as a witness, that from this deponent's personal knowledge of the man he considers him as unworthy of credit under oath. This deponent further saith that he is Fifty three years of age
Affirmed & Sub- scribed to before } Jonathan Giffard me the date above
Geo. W. Tucker

Jonathan Giffard
600 100
100

State of New Jersey Burlington County } ss
We the Subscribed Justices of the Peace in & for the Coun- ty aforesaid do hereby Certify that we are personally acquaint- ed with the within named Jonathan Giffard and that his character for Veracity stands unimpeached, and that he is entitled to the fullest Credit as a witness
Witness our hands this day of October A.D 1830
Geo. N. Tucker Sam d Beatty
Jonathan Giffard

Samuel Mathis.

State of New Jersey Burlington County ss
On the sixth of October AD 1830 personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid, Samuel Mathis of Tuckerton who being duly cautioned & affirmed deposes & saith that he had a conversation with Col G. W. Tucker in the Spring of the present year, thinks it was in March or April, that this deponent men- tioned to said Tucker that Joseph Gales receiv- ing a Pension had caused much surprise & dissatisfaction among the people and that this deponent himself felt surprised as from Gales own acknowledgments to & conversation with this deponent, he this deponent considered him a trader with the British if not a confirmed Refugee during the Revolution, that said Tucker re- plied & remarked, that Gales had made him the said Tucker believe his stories but that if the reports against Gales were confirmed that his Pension ought to be stopped or words of that import.
Samuel Mathis
Affirmed & subscribed to before the date above
Sam s Dearth

State of New Jersey Burlington County ss }
The subscriber Justice of the Peace in & for the aforesaid County (do hereby certify) that the within named Samuel Nathan's Char- acter stands unimpeached for veracity and that he is entitled to full credit as a witness.
Witness my hand this Sixth day of October A.D. 1830.
Sam s Deady
Samuel Nathan

State of New Jersey Burlington County ss
We the subscribers Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Burlington & State aforesaid Do hereby Certify that Hugh Johnson Esq & John Forman Esq & Nicholas Johnson of Washington Town- ship and Wm. Knidle, Isaac Andrews Henry Mott, Capt. Charles Cramer, Thomas Giffard, Uriah Cramer, Asahel Mathis Isaac Cramer, Wm. Giffard, James White George Cramer, Joseph Allen Esqr. Samuel Mathis, Charles Adams, Isaac Giffard Jonathan Giffard Thomas French, William Mugent and Reconcience Darby of the Township of Little Egg Harbour, are personally known to us, and that said persons characters stand unimpeach- ed for veracity, and that they severally are entitled to full faith & credit as such - as witnesses in all Courts of Judicature.
Witness our hands this Seventh day of October A.D. 1830.
Geo. M. Tucker
Sam. L. Beatty

State of New Jersey Burlington County ss.
I Samuel J. Pease clerk of the Pleas and peace of the County of Burlington aforesaid Do hereby certify - That George W Tucker and Samuel Deacon Esquires whose names are subscribed to the within certificate, were at the date thereof, and now are Justices of the Peace of the County of Burlington duly commissioned & sworn and that the signature Geo: W Tucker - and Saml Deacon are the signature and proper hand writing of the said George W Tucker and Samuel Deacon respectively - In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name to the the seal of the said County the eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and thirty. — Saml Pease

John Forman Esqr
29 Oct 18

State of New Jersey Burlington County ss }
On the Twenty Ninth of September A D 1830. person- ally appeared before the Subscriber One of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County afore- said John Forman Esq. who being duly cautioned and Swore. — Depo- seth & saith he has resided in the Township of Little Egg Harbour for the space of Forty — years & has been acquainted with Joseph Gale during & after the Revolutionary war, that he never knew of said Gale's perform- ing a tour of duty with Genl. Pulaski and would have heard or known it had it been the fact, but that this deponent did see said Gale in com- pany with the ————— ————— this deponent is aged Sixty Nine — years.
Sworn & Subscribed to before me date above Geo. W. Tucker
John Forman
John Forman Esq. now & for the last ten years has resided in the Township of Washington formerly a part of Little Egg Harbour

Nicholas Johnson

State of New Jersey } Burlington County ss }
On the thirtieth of Septem- ber A.D. 1830 before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the Coun- ty aforesaid personally appeared Nicholas Johnson of the Township of Washington & County & State afore- said, who being duly cautioned & affirmed deposeth & saith that he has been acquainted with James Gale of the Township of Washington for thirty five years that his general character is that of a man unworthy of Credit as a Witness, that from this deponents personal knowl- edge of the man he considers him as unworthy of Credit for veracity. - (Affirmed & subscribed to) before me this 30 th Sep. 1830 }
Geo. N. Tucker Justice of the Peace
Nicholas Johnson

State of New Jersey Burlington County ss
The subscribers Justices of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the within named Nicholas Johnson Char- actered stands unimpeached for veracity and that he is entitled to full credit as a witness Witness our hand this sixth day of October. A.D. 1830.
Geo. H. Tucker Sam d Deady

Thomas French

State of New Jersey Burlington County Ys }
On the fifth of Octo- ber A.D. 1830 before the subscribed one of the Jus- tices of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid personally appeared Thomas French of the Township of Little Egg Harbor County & State aforesaid who being duly cautioned and affirmed deposed & saith that he has been acquainted with James Gale of the Township of Washington for thirty three years, that his general Char- acter is that of a man unworthy of credit as a witness that from this de- ponent's personal knowledge of the man he considers him as unworthy of credit under oath. —
Sworn to me this day — Affirmed & Subscribed to before me the date aforesaid
Geo. W. Tucker Justice Peace

Wm Nugent
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State of New Jersey } Burlington County ss }
On the twentyfourth of Septem- ber A.D. 1830. before the sub- scribed one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid, personally appeared W m Nugent of the Township of Little Egg- harbour County & State aforesaid who being duly cautioned & sworn de- poseth & saith that he has been acqua- inted with Joseph Gale of the Township of Little Egg harbour for twelve years — that his general character is that of a man unworthy of Credit as a Witness that from this Deponents personal know- ledge of the man he considers him as unworthy of Credit under Oath. — William Nugent
Sworn & Subscribed to } before me the date above }
Geo. W. Tucker Justice Peace

George Cramer

State of New Jersey } Burlington County ss }
On the twenty fifth of Septem ber A.D. 1830 before the sub scriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid, personally ap peared George Kramer of the Township of Little Egg Harbor County & State aforesaid who being duly cautioned & Affirmed deposeth & saith that he has been ac quainted with James Gale of the Town ship of Washington for Twenty Years that his general character is that of a man unworthy of Credit as a witness that from this deponent's personal know ledge of the man he considers him as unworthy of Credit under oath. —
George Kramer
Affirmed & Subscribed } to before me the date } above ————— }
Geo. W. Tucker
Justice Peace

Isaac Andrews

State of New Jersey } Burlington County ss }
On the twentythird of Sep- tember A D 1830 before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid personally appeared Isaac Andrews of the Township of Little Egg Harbour County & State aforesaid aged Eighty four years who being duly Cautioned and Sworn deposeth and saith that Isaac Andrews was always a wild and indiscreet man & he is compelled to believe is a man un- worthy of Credit for Veracity.
Sworn & subscribed } Isaac Andrews to before me the date & year above written }
Geo. W. Tucker
Justice of the Peace

Thos. Giffard

State of New Jersey } Burlington County }
Upon the twentythird of September A.D. 1830 before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the afore- said County personally appea- red Thomas Giffard of the Town- ship of Little Egg Harbour, County & State aforesaid who being duly Cautioned and affirmed Depo- seth & saith that he is in the Seventieth year of his age & has always resided in the aforesaid Township & has from his youth upwards known Joseph Gale of the same Township that this deponent recollects Genl. Pulaski & his troops visit to this place & with others was affirmed before him "to be true to the States," that this de- ponent does not know that Joseph Gale did nor does not believe that he did enlist with Pulaski that if said Gale had enlisted this deponent thinks he would have heard of it at the time or after, does not know or believe that he was absent with Pulaski after his departure & that had he served a tour of duty equal to nine months this deponent would have heard of it or known of it. ~
Affirmed & Subscribed to } Thomas Giffard before me the date above }
Geo. W. Tucker Justice of the Peace

✓ see letter to S. J. Read May 2. 1832
Dec 21 ✓ see letter W. H. Shinn 21 st Dec 1833
This letter not cut out as it includes soldier's other letters Jos. Gal. MS. C.S.
placed on April 27. 1829
Susp? see letter to G. W. ? Tucker Oct. 16. 1830. Do. ✓ to same Oct. 21. 1830. Discharge copied for G. W. Tucker Esq. of Tuckerstown p. J. March 8 1831. do. to S. J. Read ✓ April 16. 1832.
See these letters in large copy books. Aug 3

Isaac Andrews
Affidavit
May 17 th 1828.

State of New Jersey } County of Burlington }
On the 17 th day of May A.D. 1828. Personally appeared Isaac Andrews of Beth Amboy, New Jersey wch. being duly sworn deponeth and saith That he is a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, and is aged Sixty eight years. That he is acquainted with Joseph Gale Esq. and believes that he is an older man than this deponent. That said Joseph Gale is now an applicant for a Pension. That he Joseph Gale joined Count Pulaski Legion at Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey in the month of July or August A.D. 1779 and was attached to Capt. Bontelous Company in said Legion, and marched with the Legion to North Carolina and saw said Joseph Gale with the Legion at Charlotte Town in said State That said Gale was in service in said Legion Exceeding nine Months, and this deponent further states that he was attached to the same Company and Legion, and further saith Not. ~ ~ ~
Sworn and subscribed to before me date above
Geo. W. Tucker Justice Peace
Isaac Andrews

I George H. Tucker Justice of Peace of Burlington County. Do Certify That I am informed that the within named Isaac Andrew, reside. at Perth Amboy New Jersey distant from my residence by the most usual route about one hundred miles That I am unacquainted with his private character, that infer That his Credibility is unimpaired he being a Pensioner himself and his oath, upon his own claim admitted.
Given under my hand the 20 th Jany. A. 1829.
Geo. H. Tucker

State of Georgia Washington County ss. I, James J. Peacock do hereby certify that the within copy of the petition of the said James J. Peacock to the Hon. the Governor of the State of Georgia is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office and of the whole thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said office this 10th day of March, 1841.
James J. Peacock Clerk
James J. Peacock Clerk

Sir, I return the papers of Joseph Gale to you The omission of the Certificate upon James Gale's Affidavit was accidental, and the delay occasioned thereby, regretted by me. ~
The old Soldier is very anxious to hear his destiny from your department; his tottering frame denotes his short route to the grave; and I must add that he has but few rations upon his fatiguing March for himself & family. ~
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient
Geo. H. Tucker
March 28 th 1829.
Hon. J. H. Eaton Secretary of War

Payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, at
Treasury by Thos L. Woodruff Esq. Recd: Treasury Banking Co.
No payment can be made on an original certificate, until the arrival of one or the other of the above dates after issuing the certificate.
Registered in Book C Vol. 4 page 56 by "Wm H. Wilson, Clerk. H

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I Certify, That, in conformity with the Laws of the United States, of March 18, 1818. May 1, 1820 & March 1, 1823, Joseph Gale late a Private in the  Company of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New Jersey Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence the 28 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty one.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 2 nd day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty one.
John Quincy Adams Secretary of War.
Examined and countersigned, James G. Edwards

Paid to Sept. 4. 1829 Nov. 18 1830 7 th to Nov. 4. 1830

Hezekiah Mathis

State of New Jersey } Burlington County }
On the twenty third of September A.D. 1830. before the subscriber one of the Jus- tices of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid personally appeared Ihesekiah Mathis of Little Egg Harbor Township, County & State aforesaid who being duly cautioned and Affirmed deposeth & saith that he was Eighty four years of age 11 th Jany 1830 that he has always resided in the aforesaid Town- ship and has from his youth upwards been acquainted with Joseph Gale of said Township that he recollects the visit of Genl. Pulaski to this place during the Revolutionary War, and the Skirmish with the British, that this deponent with Job Mathis and others took the oath to be true to the States before Pulaski, that said Pulaski & troops had grain & other articles from him for which he received an order for payment but was never paid that this deponent does not know nor does not believe that Jo- seph Gale enlisted with Pulaski if he had enlisted he would have heard of it at the time or some time thereafter; that he has never heard of said Gale being absent with Pulaski for any period of time if he had been absent this deponent believes that he would have heard of it at, or after the time and would now recollect it.
Affirmed & Subscribed to } before me the date above }
Geo. W. Tucker
Justice of the Peace
Sept 23 rd 1830 Geo. W. Tucker

James Gales
Defeater.
Septem. 9 th 1828.

State of New Jersey } Burlington County }
I George H. Tucker one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the aforesaid County, do hereby certify that the Testimony of James Gale (whose deposition is herunto annexed), is received in the Courts of Justice of this County, and to my knowledge his veracity has never been impeached therein, but that he is admitted as a Credible Witness in all cases. ~ Witness my hand and Seal this Twenty eighth day of March A. 1829.
Geo H. Tucker

State of New Jersey Burlington County ss. Samuel P. Atkinson of the township of Springfield in the County of Bur- lington aforesaid being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is now in the twenty third year of his age, that in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six prior to the month of June of that year this deponent entered the service of the United States under the command of Captain Hugh Farnam who raised a company of artillery in the County of Burlington for the term of five months, that in the month of June seventeen hundred and seventy six the said Com- pany marched from Hightstown (now called Jackson Village) in the County of Burlington aforesaid the place of Rendezvous and joined the American Troops on Long Island in the State of New York - and this deponent doth well remember that Joseph Gale was a private in the said Company and marched from Hight- stown aforesaid with them & joined the Troops on Long Island - that this deponent doth also remember that the said Joseph Gale was in the Battle between the American British Armies on Long Island and after- wards at White Plains - and that after the expiration of the said five months the term of their engagement the Command- er in Chief requested of the Volunteers & Militia men whose term of Service had expired to remain with the Army until the new recruits should arrive in camp and that this deponent the said Joseph Gale David Harsler & several others of their said Company did remain

and no duty for more than a month after the expiration of the five months the time of their engagement - and this deponent doth further depose that at that time the said Joseph Galt was a young stout athletic man vigilant in the discharge of his duty - and this deponent truly believes the said Joseph Galt was true of faith full in the service of his country - and that he has to his knowledge the said Joseph Galt at any time charged or suspected of desertion or a king's part with the enemies of his country - and for these saith not -
Sworn to subscribed this 18 th August 1832 before _____
Samuel Atkinson
Geo Hayward one of the Justices of the peace of the County of Northampton
William Roscoe Judge of the District Court of the United States of America in & for the District of New Jersey Do hereby certify that I am - acquainted with the above named Samuel Atkinson and I know nothing to impeach or doubt his veracity - and do certify that George Hayward who has subscribed to the above written deposition of the said Samuel Atkinson is a Justice of the peace in and for the said county of Burlington and that true faith and credit are due to his acts as such Nov 27 1833 -
W. Roscoe

Joseph Allen Eager
Geo H. Barker James H. Pease

State of New Jersey Burlington County ss }
On the Fifth — of October A D 1830. before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the aforesaid County personally appeared Joseph Allen Esquire who being duly Quotioned and sworn deposeth & saith that he is in the seventy- third year of his age, that he has always resided in the Township of Little Egg Harbor and known Joseph Gale from his youth upwards, that this deponent accompa- nied Genl. Pulaski from this place to Tren- ton as a substitute for a Sub. Officer upon leave of absence that said Joseph Gale did not serve a term of enlistment with said Pulaski, nor was not absent from this place nine months with said Pulaski's troops, that this deponent du- ring the Revolutionary War lived near the neighbourhood of said Gale and has a full knowledge of the above facts. — This deponent further states that he has no knowledge of said Gale's taking Arms against the Country, but that he was known to be "a trader" with the British and an associate of the Refuge- es, this deponent has himself seen some Service in the Militia of the —

Revolutions as well as several of his brothers in the Militia and Continental Line one of whom is now a pensioner. ~
Sworn & subscribed } Joseph Allen to before me the date above. . . . }
Geo. H. Buckner Justice Peace

State of New Jersey Burlington County ss }
The subscribers Justices of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that we are personally acquainted with the within named Joseph Allen Esquire and that his character for Veracity stands unimpeached and that he is entitled to the ful- lest Credit as a witness.
Witness our hands this sixth day of October A.D. 1830.
Geo S. Decker Sam d Decker
Joseph Allen Esq r

1 State of New Jersey Washington County ss } On the twenty third of September A.D. 1830 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid personally appeared Hezekiah Mathis of Little Egg Harbor Township, County & State aforesaid who being duly cautioned and affirmed deposeth & saith that he was Eighty four years of age 11 th July 1830 that he has always resided in the aforesaid Township and has from his youth upwards been ac- quainted with Joseph Gale of said Township that he recollects the visit of Genl. Pulaski to this place during the Revolutionary war, and the skirmish with the British, that this deponent with Jos. Mathis and others took the oath to be true to the States before Pulaski, that said Pulaski & troops had grain & other Ar- ticles from him for which he received an order for payment but was never paid. that this deponent does not know nor does not believe that Joseph Gale enlisted with Pulaski, if he had enlisted he would have heard of it at the time or some time thereafter. that he has never heard of said Gale being absent with Pulaski for any period of time, if he had been absent this deponent believes that he would have heard of it at, or after the time and would now recollect it.
(Signed) Hezekiah Mathis
Affirmed & Subscribed to before me the date above
(Signed) Geo. W. Tucker
Justice of the Peace

1st of New Jersey Burlington County 3
Upon the twenty third of September A. D. 1830 before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the afore- said County personally appeared Thomas Giffard of the Township of Little Egg Harbor, County & State aforesaid who being duly sworn did affirm Deposith & saith that he is in the seventeenth year of his age & has always resided in the afore- said Township and has from his youth upwards known Joseph Gale of the same Township that this deponent recollects Genl. Pulaski & his troops went to this place & with others was affirmed before him "to be true to the States" that this deponent does not know that Joseph Gale did nor does not believe that he did enlist with Pulaski that if said Gale had enlisted this deponent thinks he would have heard of it at the time or after, does not know or believe that he was absent with Pulaski after his departure & that had he served a term of duty equal to nine months this deponent would have heard of it or known of it.
(Signed) Thomas Giffard
Affirmed & Subscribed to before me this date above Signed Geo: W. Tucker Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey
Burlington County ss On the twenty third of September A. D. 1830 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid personally appeared Isaac Andrews of the Township of Little Egg Harbor County & State aforesaid, aged Eighty four Years who being duly Sworn deposed and said that with the exception of one year he has resided in said Township and has from his youth known Joseph Gale, that this deponent held a Captains Commission in the Militia of New Jersey and was upon a tour of duty at Princeton in 1777 or thereabouts that Captain Benjamin Fenimore a Militia Officer of Burlington County was also upon duty at the same time & place that this deponent is confident that Joseph Gale was not there at the time. This deponent further states that Genl. Count Pulaski with his troops being upon a tour of duty at Little Egg Harbor in 1777 or 1778 (at which place they had a skirmish with the British) this deponent remained with said Pulaski during his stay at this place & was received and entertained by said Pulaski as an Officer & friend and accompanied him a few miles upon his departure, that this deponent knows of no enlistment with Pulaski at Little Egg Harbor except Isaac Andrews a nephew of this deponent that if any other enlistment had taken place this deponent would have known it, that he does not recollect seeing Joseph Gale during Pulaski's stay at Little Egg Harbor that if said Gale had enlisted he this deponent would have known it and that he does not believe that he did enlist under Pulaski or go with him that he did not miss

said Gale (nor does not believe that he was absent from this neighborhood any period like a year after the departure of Pulaski, that if said Gale had gone upon a tour of duty with Pulaski this deponent would have heard of it at the time, which he did not, nor even did until within a year or eighteen months from Gale himself, that said Gale called upon this deponent as a witness to the fact which he refused to be (not knowing or believing that he did same under Pulaski, this deponent further states that he has no knowledge of said Gale being in service except a short period under Captain Lusk at Red Bank as a drafted Militia Man, this deponent further states that he has no knowledge of any officer in Pulaski's Legion called Pontiac known & subscribed to before me the date & year above written (signed) Geo W. Tucker (signed) Isaac Andrews - State of New Jersey, Burlington County ss
On the twenty fourth of September A.D. 1830 before the Subscribed one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Wm. Nugent of the Township of Little Egg Harbor County & State aforesaid who being duly sworn deponeth & saith that he has been acquainted with Joseph Gale of the Township of Little Egg Harbor for twelve years that his general character is that of a man unworthy of credit as a witness that from this deponent's personal knowledge of the man he considers him as unworthy of credit under oath.
(signed) William Nugent Sworn & subscribed to before me the date above.
(signed) George W. Tucker Justice Peace

Hot of New Jersey Raritan County
Upon the twenty fourth of September A.D. 1830 personally appeared before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County Henry Mott aged Eighty two years who being duly cautioned and affirmed deponeth & saith that he has always resided in the Township of Little Egg Harbour, that in or about the year 1777 this deponent with Thomas Gifford & others went to the now village of Tuckerton and took the oath of allegiance to the States before Count Palatine by his order, that he is well ac- quainted with Joseph Gale and knew him at the aforesaid period, that said Joseph Gale did not to the knowledge of this deponent enlist in said Palatine's Corps nor does he believe that he did, that said Gale was not to his knowledge absent for any length of time after Palatine's departure, that had he been absent for any period like a year this deponent would have known it & thinks would now recollect it, that he has no knowledge of his being in any since except on board the Privateer Bat- the snake, that his general reputation was that of a refugee, this deponent further states that Gale married a relation of one Joseph Story who lived in the neigh- bourhood of Gale that said Story was at the absent upon Liebeck & Heizer's of Fredericksburg & several other Northern expeditions and served a long period during the Revolutionary war, this deponent does not know that said Gale had access to any of the papers of said Story or that he obtained possession of any of his discharges but thinks it highly probable that his character & ingenuity might lead him to it, that his general char-

acter is that of a "bad man"
(Signed) his J. mark  C Mott
Read & Subscribed to in the presence of
(Signed) Thomas Page
Affirmed & Subscribed to before me the date above
(Signed) Geo. W. Tucker, J. Peace
State of New Jersey Burlington County ss
On the twenty fifth of Sep- tember A.D. 1830 before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid, personally appeared George Cramer of the Township of Little Egg Harbor County & State aforesaid who being duly sworn & affirmed deponeth & saith that he has been acquainted with James Gale of the Township of of Washington for Twenty Years that his general Character is that of a man unworthy of Credit as a witness that from his deponents personal knowledge of the man he considers him as unworthy of Credit under oath.
(Signed) George Cramer
Affirmed & Subscribed to before me the date above
(Signed) Geo. W. Tucker
Justice Peace
State of New Jersey Burlington County ss
On the twenty ninth of Sep- tember A.D. 1830 personally appeared before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid John Forman Esq who being duly sworn and sworn deponeth & saith he has resided in the

7 Ownership of Little Egg Harbour for the space of Forty years & has been acquainted with Joseph Gale during & after the Revolutionary War, that he never knew of said Gale's performing a term of duty with Genl. Pulaski and would have heard or known it had it been the fact, this deponent is aged sixty nine years
(Signed) John Forman
Sworn and Subscribed to before me the date above
(Signed) Geo. W. Tucker
John Forman Esq. now & for the last ten years has resided in the Township of Washington formerly a part of Little Egg Harbour —
State of New Jersey Washington County ss }
On the thirtieth of September A.D. 1830 before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Sussex personally appeared Nicholas Johnson of the Township of Washington & County & State aforesaid, who being duly cautioned & affirmed deponeth & saith that he has been acquainted with James Gale of the Township of Washington for thirty-five years, that his general character is that of a man unworthy of credit as a witness, that from this deponent's personal knowledge of the man he considers him as unworthy of credit for veracity.
(Signed) Nicholas Johnson
Affirmed & Subscribed to
before me this 30th Sep. 1830 }
(Signed) Geo. W. Tucker Justice Peace }

State of New Jersey Burlington County ss
On the fifth of October A.D. 1830 before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the aforesaid County personally appeared Joseph Allen Esquire who being duly cautioned and sworn deposeth & saith that he is in the seventy third year of his age, that he has always resided in the Township of Little Egg Harbor and knows Joseph Gale from his youth upwards, that this deponent accompanied Genl. Pulaski from this place to Trenton as a Substitute for a Sub. Officer upon leave of absence that said Joseph Gale did not serve a term of enlistment with said Pulaski, nor was not absent from this place (Nine Months) with said Pulaski's Troops, that this deponent during the Revolutionary war lived near the neighborhood of said Gale and has a full knowledge of the above facts.
This deponent further states that he has no knowl- edge of said Gale's taking arms against the Coun- try, but that he was known to be "a brother with the British" and an associate of the Refugees. This deponent has himself seen some service in the Militia of the Revolution as well as several of his Brothers in the Militia and Continental Line one of whom is now a Prisoner.
(Signed) Joseph Allen
Sworn & subscribed to before me the date above.
(Signed) Geo: W. Tucker Justice Peace

Isaac Andrews

Henry Nott

State of New Jersey } Burlington County ss }
On the twenty third of September AD 1830 before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid personally appeared Isaac Andrews of the Township of Little Egg Harbour County & State aforesaid, aged Eighty four years who being duly cautioned and sworn deposeth & saith that with the ex- ception of one year he has resided in said Township and has from his youth known Joseph Gale, that this deponent held a Captains Commission in the Militia of New Jersey and was upon a tour of duty at Prince- ton in 1777 or thereabouts that Cap t Benjamin Grenmore a Militia Officer of Burlington County was also upon duty at the same time & place that this deponent is confident that Joseph Gale was not there at the time. — This deponent further states that Gen l Count Pulaski with his troops being upon a tour of duty at Little Egg Harbour in 1777 or 1778. (at which place they had a skirmish with the British) — this deponent remained with said Pulaski during his stay at this place & was received and entertained by said Pulaski as an Officer & friend and accom- panied him a few miles upon his departure, that this deponent knows of no enlistment with Pulaski at Little Egg Harbour except

Isaac Andrews a nephew of this deponent that if any other enlistment had taken place this deponent would have known it, that he does not recollect seeing Jo- seph Gale during Pulaski's stay at Little Egg Harbour that if said Gale had en- listed he this deponent would have known it and that he does not be- lieve that he did enlist under Pulas- ki or go with him, that he did not miss said Gale nor does not believe that he was absent from this neighbour- hood any period like a year after the departure of Pulaski, that if said Gale had gone upon a tour of duty with Pulaski this deponent would have heard of it at the time, which he did not, nor ever did until within a year or Eigh- teen months from Gale himself, that said Gale called upon this deponent as a witness to the fact which he refused to be not knowing or believing that he did serve under Pulaski. This de- ponent further states that he has no knowledge of said Gale being in service ex- cept a short period under Capt. Leek at Red Bank as a drafted Militia man, this deponent further states that he has no knowledge of any Officer in Pulaski's Legion called Bentelow
Isaac Andrews

sworn & subscribed to before me this date & year above written }
Geo. W. Tucker
Juster of the Peace

Henry Nott

State of New Jersey } Burlington County }
Upon the twenty fourth of September A D. 1830 person- ally appeared before the sub- scribed one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County Henry Mott aged Eighty two years who being duly cautioned and Affirmed deposeth & saith that he has always resided in the Township of Little Egg Harbour that on or about the year 1777 this deponent with Thomas Gifford & others went to the now Village of Tuckerton and took the Oath of Allegiance to the States be- fore Count Pulaski & by his order that he is well acquainted with Joseph Gale and knew him at the aforesaid period that said Joseph Gale did not to the knowledge of this deponent enlist in said Pulaski's Corps nor does he believe that he did, that said Gale was not to his knowledge absent for any length of time after Pulaski's de- parture, that had he been absent for any period like a year this deponent would have known it & thinks would now recol- lect it, that he has no knowledge of his be- ing in any service except on board the Pri- vater Rattle Snake, that his general repute was that of a refugee, this deponent further states that Gale married a rela- tive of one Joseph Story who lived in the neighbourhood of Gale that said Story

was at the assault upon Quebeck & seizure of Ticonderoga & several other Northern expeditions and served a long period during the Revolutionary War, this deponent does not know that said Gale had access to any of the papers of said Story or that he obtained possession of any of his discharges but thinks it highly probable that his character & ingenuity might lead him to it, that his general character is that of a 'bad man'.
Read to & subscribed to } his { Story X Scott in the presence of { Hovey Marks Thomas L. Lusk
affirmed & subscribed to } before me the date above } Geo. W. Tucker J. P.
Henry Mott

The Original will be forward- ed to the War Department by Monday Mail

Extract of a letter from General Philip Van Cortlandt to Col. Geo. Tucker
Cortlandt Town Octo. 8 th 1830.
Geo. Tucker Esq.
Sir
I have received yours of the 18 th Sept. respecting a certain Joseph Gale said to have been a Soldier in a Company of which Benjamin Fenimore was Capt and was discharged by a certain David Ander- son after 5 or 6 Months service on Long Island and White Plains in October or Novr. 1776 under my Command. And you enquire if I have any recollection of them or of their being in the Army of the Revolutionary War. My answer is that I never knew or heard of any such men being under my Command or under the Comd. of any other Colonel in the Army. They nor either of them could have been under my Comd. in October 1776. in on Long Island, as I was then a Lieut Col. un- der the Comd. of Col. John Koop of the 4 th N. York Regt. at Skeensborough on Lake Champlain. However the 2 d N. York Regt. was at the Battle of the White Plains commanded by the Lieut Col. Frederick Weissenfels as the Col. Rudolphus Wiltse had absented himself without leave

and then his Excellency Genl. Washington having blank Commissions had one filled up with my name to Comd. that Regiment and sent it by express to me at Skeensborough which I received in December and immediately proceeded to join the Regiment which I found in the State of Pennsylvania, much reduced by Desertion and unwarranted Discharges made by Col. Miltuma, before his desertion as I was informed. The Regiment after the Capture of the Hessians at Trenton was ordered to proceed to Fishkill in the State of New York to be recruited which order I complied with and continued the Command thereof until the end of the War, having received previously on the 10th Octob r 1783 a Commission as a Brigadier General by brevet in the Army of the United States of America in pursuance of an Act of Congress of the 30th September 1783.
Very Respectfully I remain yr humble serv t
(Signed)
P. H. N. Cortlandt

The foregoing original letter received this day the 13 th . October 1830.

First Regiment
Return of the Non-Commissioned Officers and privates of the First Jersey Regiment in Service in January 1781 with the sums due to each on account of the depreciation of their pay, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature passed January 6, 1781.
   Names Rank Time in Service Pay per month Amt of Depr n State Stores Cashed of Com n Bal due     Joseph Gail Private Apr. 1. 1777 to Aug. 1. 1780 £2. 10. 0 £83. 19. 2 £4. 0. 0 £1. 17. 6 £78. 1. 8  
State of New Jersey
I Thomas S. Allison Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from Book C. of Auditor's Accounts Page 8. as taken from and compared with the original record in my Office. And I do further certify that there is no other Joseph Gail or Joseph Gale to be found on the records of this Office, nor any record of the desertion of such person.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office at Trenton this nineteenth day of September Eighteen hundred and fifty one.
Thos. S. Allison
Secy of State

Joseph Gale of New Jersey, was a private in Captain Jennings's Company, in Col. Philip Van Cortlandt's Regt. and served six months, and was discharged; his discharge, which is on file with his declaration at the Pension Office, bears date 21st April 1777.
In 1779, Joseph Gale enlisted in Captain Burdous or Brewster's Company, in Count Pulaski's Legion where he served ten months and was discharged, but this discharge has been accidentally destroyed.
He was inscribed on the Pension roll of New Jersey at $40 per month to commence on the 28th of March 1829. The certificate of Pension was issued 27th April 1829. The declaration, deposition and evidence on which the Pension was allowed, were for the most part, if not altogether, prepared by George W. Tucker Esq. who appears to have acted as Gale's agent; and it also appears that he got possession of the Pension Certificate, and because he was not allowed to use the whole of the Pension or control it as he wished, he became incensed against Gale, and instead of his friend, became suddenly his bitter enemy and waged against a poor infirm old soldier uncomprehending hostility, literally causing an old defender of his Country, because he was a poor man, to die wretchedly and miserably in the public poor's house.
As early as 14th August 1830 Mr. Tucker writes to the Pension Office adverse to Gale's right to his Pension at the same time returning the Pensioner's Certificate to the Department.
Upon an examination of the evidence upon which the Pension was allowed we think

It will be seen that the evidence then filed very clearly established the right of the soldier to a pension and that the Department committed no error in granting it. On the other hand we think that the assertions of Mr. Tucker and the depositions that he filed to destroy the pension are not by any means such testimony as should overthrow the claim of the Pensioner, especially after the rebutting testimony which I have now the honor to submit shall be taken in connexion with the evidence first filed in favor of the claim.
The depositions and declaration of the widow are authenticated by a judge of the Court, and the deponents are entitled to be the most credible witnesses the State of New Jersey can furnish. We ask for the widow a share of Pension due her husband from the time his pension was unjustly stopped to the time of his death in 1834.
We most respectfully invite attention to an item furnished by Mr. Tucker in his anxiety to destroy the old pensioner's claim to his pension, to wit; his application to Genl Van Coillard to try to draw out of that officer a declaration that Gale was not in the service in his Regt. what does Genl Van Coillard say? simply that he does not recollect! Is it to be supposed a Genl Officer could or would be likely to recollect every private soldier who may have been at any time in service in his Regt. at the distance of about fifty years? But Mr. Tucker was

rather unfortunate in his own memory or he would have remembered that there was evidence indisputable, already on file, and put there by himself too, that the soldier did serve in Van Buren's Regt. I allude to his discharge which has been before adverted to.
In conclusion we offer the enclosed testimonies to rebut all the malicious charges set up by Tucker to gratify his private malice, and hope that upon our examination of this and occupying the whole carefully there will be no difficulty in allowing the widow's claim.
Honble Jas W. Heath Commissioner of Pensions Washington
24th May 1857. P. C.
Very respectfully Yours H. S. A. T. H. C. Spalding Attorney

State of New Jersey County of Burlington
On this twelfth day of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me the subscriber a Judge of the Court of common Pleas of said county Joseph Ridgway Esquire a Resident of Tuckerton in the County and State aforesaid holding the office of Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Burlington who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statements for the purpose of rebutting certain testimony which he believes to be false which was filed in the Pension Office in October 1850 by one George W Tucker for the purpose of depriving Joseph Gale a Revolutionary Pensioner of receiving his pension money. That he concurs fully with the statements in the foregoing declaration made and subscribed by Hannah Gale the widow of the said Joseph Gale relating to the falsity and unjustness of the statements filed in the Pension Office by George W Tucker discrediting Joseph Gale Witness and alleging that Joseph Gale had been a Refuge and Sare, that these statements were made by George W Tucker through malicious and malevolent designs that it was generally believed in the neighborhood that George W Tucker became disaffected because he could not have the disposal of the pension money and was thereby maliciously enacted to exert the influence he possessed over certain individuals to over

procure affidavits as repugnant to the said Gole Witnesses and to the reputation of Joseph Gole as a Revolutionary Soldier, he further states that Isaac Andrews and James Gole who were Witnesses in support of Joseph Gole's application for a pension were Credible Witness , that he believes their testimony would be received in any Court of Justice. That he was particularly well acquainted with the said Isaac Andrews and can safely state that a more strictly upright and a more credible person could not be found in Burlington County. That his veracity never was doubted, and that it was generally known and believed in the neighborhood and vicinity that Joseph Gole was a Revolutionary Soldier and that he was always reputed to be such and was believed to be entitled to a pension agreeable to acts of Congress in consideration of his Country's Service and he further states that Hannah Gole is in this vicinity known and reputed to be the Widow of the said Joseph Gole and that she is in indigent circumstances and that he would recommend her to the Department as being a person justly entitled to a pension,
Affirmed & subscribed before me the day and year first written
Oliver A. P. Quigley
I hereby certify that Joseph Ridgeway above named is a credible witness and that the above affidavit and the interest therein was made before the signing and seal of the same.
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...is a credible witness, and that the above same and the mention was made before the said ...
State of New Jersey } County of Burlington } On the 12th day of May A.D. 1857 Personally appeared before me Oliver M.P. Emery One of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid Timothy Tharo a resident of Tuckerton in the County and State aforesaid who being duly affirmed according to law to the best of his knowledge and say that he was well acquainted with Isaac Andrews and James Gale whom he has been informed were witnesses in support of Joseph Gale's application for a pension and that he believes them to have been credible witnesses and that their testimony would be received in any Court of Justice where they were known
Affirmed & subscribed before me } Timothy Tharo the day and year above written } Oliver M.P. Emery
I hereby certify that the above named Timothy Tharo is a credible witness Oliver M.P. Emery
I do hereby certify that the above Timothy Tharo and Joseph Ridgeway are men of integrity and of respectable standing in this village, and also in the State of New Jersey and as far as I am acquainted with the case above specified and attested to, by the said Tharo & Ridgeway is meet my approval
Collector of the Port Isaac Thompson

January 20th 1851 personally appeared before me a Commissioner of deeds duly authorized by law to take acknowledgements in and for the County of said Hannah Gale subscribe to the foregoing and acknowledged the same to be her act and deed for the purpose therein described all which is certified by me State of New Jersey William Page County of Burlington
On this eighth day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths within and for the County and State of said William Gale who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is and has been for years acquainted with Hannah Gale above mentioned that he was present and was a witness at the

marriage solemnized by Gibson Ashcroft Esqr. between the said Joseph Gale and Hannah Gale at the time set forth in her declaration above mentioned and that the said Joseph Gale is deceased that the said Hannah Gale is still his widow
William Gyle
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written
Ebenezer Justice

Hannah Gale
Burlington Co New Jersey
Widow of Joseph Gale a Revolutionary Soldier }
Claim for arrears of Pension due Joseph Gale S. for the Widows Pension

I know all men by these presents that I Henriah Galt of Tuckerton in the County of Burlington and State of New Jersey do hereby make constitute and appoint Mr. Browne of Upper Pittsgrove Salem County and State of said My true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions the arrears of pension due my husband at the time of his death and also the full amount of my pension as his widow agreeable to the foregoing declaration giving and granting to my said Attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do if personally present with full power of substitution and revocation hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Witness my hand and seal this day of Signed sealed and delivered in presence of
1851
Oliver W.P. Emery Joseph Allen
Henriah Galt mark
Acknowledged before me this day of May A.D. 1851
Oliver W.P. Emery

State of New Jersey County of Burlington
Be it known that on the twelfth day of May 1857 before me a Judge of the court of common Pleas in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths. Personally appeared J. H. Browne the Attorney named in the within or foregoing power of Attorney and made oath that he has no interest in the money he is authorized to receive by virtue of the foregoing power of Attorney, either in any pledge mortgage, sale assignment or transfer, and that he does not know that or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any person whatever.
J. H. Browne
The interlineation was made before my hand. Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned before me.
Oliver W. P. Emley
I know all men by these presents that I J. H. Browne of Upper Pittsgrove Salem County and State of New Jersey by virtue of the power in me vested by the annexed or foregoing letter of Attorney have made constituted and appointed H. C. Spalding of Washington D.C. my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my place and stead to do and perform all acts requisite as I might do if personally present agreeable to the power vested in me by virtue of the foregoing power of Attorney.
In my hand and seal this 16 day of May 1857 Signed, Sealed, Delivered and acknowledged in my presence J. H. Browne
Given under my hand this 16 day of May 1857 See to the Clerk (Mount Holly) Notary Public

I know all men by these presents that I Hannah Gale of Tuckerton in the County of Burlington and State of New Jersey do hereby make constitute and appoint Mr Bravne of Upper Pittsgrove Salem County and State of aforesaid My true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions the arrears of pension due my husband at the time of his death and also the full amount of my pension as his widow agreeable to the foregoing declaration giving and granting to my said Attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do if personally present with full power of substitution and revocation hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Witness my hand and seal this day of Signed sealed and delivered A.D. 1851 in presence of Oliver W.P. Emery Joseph Allen Hannah Gale mark
acknowledged before me this day of May A.D. 1851
Oliver W.P. Emery